You teach. We drill.
Faculty already know what works. Immersion. Conversation partners. A semester abroad. The trouble has never been pedagogy — it's that none of it scales to 24 students in a 50-minute class.
Cadentia is the daily floor of immersion: corrected, conversational practice in every student's pocket, every day.
In a class of 24 with 50-minute periods, individual speaking time can fall to as little as fifteen minutes per student across an entire semester. The curriculum compensates with what scales — reading, writing, worksheets, videos. Everything except using the language. Office hours can't fix it. Conversation tables aren't trained to correct. Study abroad reaches a small minority. Students leave year four able to read and afraid to talk.
Three immersion mechanics, distilled into a daily practice every student can carry in their pocket.
Voice practice on demand, in the language. The kind of conversation a student would have on day three of a homestay — every day, without the flight.
The teacher's instinct, distilled. Mistakes flagged in the moment, privately, without the social cost that keeps students silent in class.
Their mistakes become their curriculum. What a student stumbles on today, the system schedules back into next session. The error becomes the lesson.
Bloom's two-sigma research showed that one-on-one tutoring closes the achievement gap by two standard deviations. Immersion works on the same principle. Cadentia is what makes it scalable.
Tell us about your programme. We'll do the research before we get on the call.
We walk through the product, you tell us what your programme needs, we agree on scope.
We handle setup and faculty onboarding. You focus on teaching.
Study abroad, summer programmes, conversation tables. Cadentia is what gets every student a piece of that, not just the ones who travel.
Where speaking proficiency is a real standard, not just a course outcome.
Where the programme has to look as serious as the brochure says it is.
I learned Italian by listening to music. I'd pull new words from the lyrics, track them in an Excel sheet, and review them on a schedule — then phrases from conversation, then corrections from every tutor. The file became the system; the system became the language.
At university I ran the Italian Students Association and started a biweekly language café — espresso machine in the library, a couple of hours where students could speak and stay in the language. It filled a gap the curriculum couldn't reach. Every faculty member I've spoken to since has run something similar, on top of teaching, on top of grading, on their own time.
Then I went to Mexico to learn Spanish — no spreadsheet, just people. Spanish came in fast and Italian quietly fell apart. Once you can hold a conversation, nobody corrects you. Your mistakes fossilise. Cadentia is what I needed in all three rooms: the patience of the spreadsheet, the pressure of the conversation, the everyday space of a language café. We work directly with language faculty, not through resellers.
— Amedeo Cunsolo, founder.
You teach. We drill.
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